Around 496 writers sent their stories to the 2016 "It's All Write!" Teen Short Story Contest! Below is a list of the 2016 winners and finalists.
6th-8th Grade Winners:
| 1st | Chioma Ilozor | "Where We Belong" |
| 2nd | Deniz Kirca | "My Father's Memories" |
| 3rd | Elizabeth Plotner | "The Cage" |
9th-10th Grade Winners:
| 1st | Samantha Pyo | "Unprecedented" |
| 2nd | Zoe Lubetkin | "To Desire the Sky" |
| 3rd | Tiffany Vembenil | "Dear Dawn" |
11th-12th Grade Winners:
| 1st | Devin Quinn | "Lock's Wasteland" |
| 2nd | Samuel Giedzinski | "The Painter's Foe" |
| 3rd | Katherine Horning | "Coming Out" |
2016 Finalists in three grade categories:
Finalist 6-8 Grade:
| Anonymous | Anonymous |
| Ari Yaffe-Inoue "In the Midst" | Alex Alesso "Make it Home" |
| Anonymous | Aaron Belman-Wells "Phoenix" |
| Sierra Lubetkin "The Book That Got Around" | Michael Cherkasky "The Golden Arm" |
| Zoe Buhalis "Encircle" | Shelby Williams "Finding Civilization" |
| Logan Deyarmond "Of Pachyderms and Predators" | |
| Austin McDonald "The Unlikely Team" |
Finalist 9-10 Grade:
| Grace Bassick "Journey to the End" | Margaret Camilletti "The Magic Flower" |
| Christina Starks "Night Blood" | James Johal-Smith "An (Almost) Free Korea" |
| Matthew Nguyen "The Red Village" | Emily Ma "The Conquest of Flight" |
| Michelle Merritt "Farewell to Fireflies" | Anonymous |
| Anonymous | Gabriella Chu "Yosemite " |
| Sam Stroud "What Remains" | |
| Jennifer Wiland "Until It's Gone" |
Finalist 11-12 Grade:
| Emily Schussheim "Lizards Who Expel Their Sticky Tongues Like Fishing Line" |
Sonya Moss "The Prey" |
| Chasity Hale "Agoraphobia" | Simone Schade "12th Street" |
| Kimberly Schmidt"It Was Always Too Late" | James Rode "Late, Bound for London" |
| Sarah Chan "Six Words for Love" | Janine Faust "Migration to Russia" |
| James Stinnett "Verbindung im München" | Keri Haddrill "Stairway to the Sky" |
| Anastasia Beer "Hope" | |
| Maddie DePuy "Egg Islands" | |
| Mila Serefko "Grandpa Lost His Marbles" |